Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?

Subject	Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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From	Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date	2015-10-11 15:59 -0400
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On 2015-10-11 15:02, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-11 11:50, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2015-10-10 21:03, Ed Light wrote:
>>>>> On 10/10/2015 6:45 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>>>> On 2015-10-09 20:14, Ed Light wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/9/2015 6:41 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For interoperability it's best to use FAT32.  I've never had any issue
>>>>>>>> with FAT32 at all in 20 years or so that it's been around
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I based my post on my Windows 98 experience. It would crash often, and
>>>>>>> you'd almost always find errors on the FAT 32 when running chkdisk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Win98.  Right.  Yep.  That's something to base opinion on.  Sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tell me, do you use a crank to start your car?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't be a psychopathic thingy.
>>>>
>>>> Referring to Fat32 errors on Win98 is about as silly as it gets.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You are inexperienced.
>>>>
>>>> I was running MS issued Win98 many months before it was released to the
>>>> public.  (Indeed my surviving WinXP upgrade depends on me having that
>>>> Win98 installation disk).
>>>>
>>>> But I confess I never had a hand cranked car.
>>>
>>> Win 98 was a decent version of Windows - the best till XP IMO - and I
>>> don't recall disk errors being an issue.
>>
>> I don't either, but it wouldn't shock me if there were.  And yes, 98 was
>> quite good, stable.  But I do recall a couple blue screens of death with
>> it.  I don't recall (admittedly fuzzy here) a BSOD with XP.
>
> Given XP's incrediable run, I'm surprised you never saw in BSOD :-) But

As I say, I don't _recall_ a BSOD with XP.  And I've never had a BSOD 
since I virtualized Windows on a Mac.  (Then again I don't do so much 
that could cause a BSOD).

> yeah - for the most part I found it quite stable, as I also did with
> fully fully patched 98. 95 while neat (for Windows - it couldn't hold a
> candle to System 7) was a frequent source of BSOD for me.

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  Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-08 19:16 -0700
    Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-10-09 17:31 +1300
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                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-10-12 14:29 +0100
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                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-11 12:05 -0400
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-10-12 08:02 +1300
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-10-11 14:33 -0500
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-10-12 10:59 +1300
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-11 18:52 -0400
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-10-11 20:28 -0700
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-11 15:59 -0400
          Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-10-12 03:34 +0200
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              Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-11 17:13 -0700
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-12 09:01 -0400
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-12 14:51 -0700
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